Legal matters of maritime concern in Hawaii, Oceania, and beyond.
The Army Corps of Engineers has released its Fiscal Year 2009 budget request.
Of note in the Oceania region (on PDF page 12), $300,000 for a survey of the Ala Wai canal on Oahu, $200,000 for preconstruction engineering and design at Maalaea Harbor on Maui, and $350,000 for a flood control survey of the…
A federal judge in Los Angeles has rejected the Presidential exemption (posted here) and has enjoined sonar use by the Navy off the coast of California (original order posted here).
Calling the Presidential exemption "constitutionally suspect", the judge reaffirmed her prior decision enjoining the training exercises without mitigation measures pending completion of
Department of Homeland Security published its new guidelines governing identification required of American citizens returning from abroad. Abandoning the oral declaration rule, the new rules require:
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In the strange news department, the NY Times reports that in several incidents around the globe, undersea cables were cut. As most of the electronic information is transmitted on these cables, some concern is warranted.
Honolulu Advertiser reports the Pride of Hawaii moving to Europe. The newspaper notes that the impacts of such a move are of a mixed concern.
I had the opportunity to listen to Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court lecture tonight on judicial independence. He was in Hawaii (for his first time ever) as a Jurist-in-Residence at the University of Hawaii Law School. His presentation was all-too brief but the lecture (held at the Hawaii Supreme Court) was quite…
MaritimeTerrorism.com reports another Somali-linked piracy incident near the Gulf of Aden, this time of a Russian tugboat.
